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Welcome aboard the Navy/Marine Reserve Officers' Training Corps Unit at
the University of Minnesota!
This is a professional Baccalaureate degree program leading to a commission
as an officer in the Navy or Marine Corps. Competitively awarded
scholarships are available. It is also possible to complete our
"College Program", without receiving a scholarship, and still
earn an officer commission. For detailed program information and
application procedures, please go here.
Our mission is to produce Unrestricted Line (URL) officers. URL officers
are our nation's warfighters. They "drive" ships, submarines and
airplanes, and lead troops in the combat arms of our Naval service. All
officers commissioned through the NROTC are ordered to an initial active
duty assignment.
We are in the Naval services because we love our country. We feel
obligated to serve in the armed forces to "support and defend the
Constitution of the United States"
and all the freedoms we hold dear as a people. We choose to do so by
joining this team oriented task driven culture. We take personal risks, and
make tough decisions, striving to do the right thing even when no one is
watching. We work with, follow, and lead some of the finest people around.
We operate, maintain, and develop cutting edge systems in challenging
environments. We do our best to live up to our service's "core
values" of honor, courage and commitment and to live up to the public
trust of duty, honor and country. We subscribe to the philosophy that
"freedom isn't free."
We are at this university because the American people and the Naval
service think it is important that our officer corps be tempered by a cross
section of citizens. We value higher education gained shoulder to shoulder
with the diverse student/faculty population found in civilian colleges and
universities like this, and our "cross-town enrolled schools" the
University of Saint
Thomas and Macalester
College. In general, our
students major in whatever they choose. We do require them to complete
other fully accredited college courses, applied as free electives or in
addition to their chosen curriculum, in order to ensure adequate
preparation for the challenges ahead as officers in the Navy or Marine
Corps.
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